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BIO From an early age, I learned that life is what we make of it! I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. My father was an architect with a big heart who introduced me to Joesph Campbell's book The Power Of Myth . My mother was a social worker (truly living life as a good samaritan, even today at the age of 89) who literally took a trip around the world. After getting my undergrad in Literature with Writing Emphasis at Marquette University, I went to work for General Motors as a systems engineer. Years later I got a Masters in Creative Writing from Oklahoma State University, then a PhD in Creative Writing from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. After that, I moved to Mexico and taught for 10 years at the Tecnologico de Monterrey , a university that Newsweek called "the Harvard of Latin America." Soon I got involved with the film school ( Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica ) in Mexico City, composing music for films that were nominate...
